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Craig Spradlin posted:I like your reading that each of the hits represented some element of society I personally read it as the ritual is to kill elements of society or archetypes in a particular order in order, like in Cabin in the Woods. The ritual IS to get the cult some new management, but it ends up being Jay, or whatever they summoned into him. That's why at the end of the movie they put a (straw) crown on him and he's no longer trying to escape. He's their new leader.
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I disliked Timecrimes for the same reason I disliked Tucker and Dale vs Evil: Once you understand the premise, all that remains is seeing what kind of crazy contortions the writers are going to have to put the story through to get there. It's entertaining, sure, but not as a story. Whereas, I thought Triangle was actually an effective horror movie.
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Slackerish posted:Yeah but Tucker and Dale vs Evil was hilarious. Sure, it just wasn't surprising after the premise. Likewise, Timecrimes (I think) makes a better dark comedy than a psychological horror film, while Triangle plays it straight.
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Vier posted:Watched Confessions over the weekend which seems to fit the psychological thriller tag what's are peoples thoughts on it? I quite liked Confessions, but couldn't help but compare it to that one episode of South Park involving pubes in chili. It's fiendish but utterly ridiculous.
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Getsuya posted:I just posted about this over in the Rate the Last Movie You Watched thread, but anyone who has interest in psychological thrillers or Japanese cinema should check out Zero.
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Getsuya posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lrOsRiqEEs Well, I don't know a whole lot about what's going on in this movie, but my interest is piqued! Thanks!
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Snak posted:I nearly forgot, but I also watched Odd Thomas. It was... well I loving hate Dean Koontz. I feel like this must have been a pretty stylistically faithful adaption because it felt like a Dean Koontz story in every terrible way. So I thought it was pretty much complete garbage, but almost entirely because of the dialogue and story. The acting and effects were pretty decent. If you somehow like Dean Koontz, this is probably worth a watch. Odd Thomas is aggressively terrible. I dislike Dean Koontz but I'm usually of the opinion that he can hit one or two decent horror notes per book, but Odd Thomas is utterly without merit. I have to imagine the book was better than that to actually get funding for a movie.
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speshl guy posted:The guy writes airport rags geared toward the lowest common denominator for impulse buys, did anyone think the movie based on his work would be any different I knew it would be bad, I didn't expect it to be that bad. Phantoms and Demon Seed were at least competent as B-movies.
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Jun 15, 2015 08:26
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coyo7e posted:a lot more sad creepy epilogue where he spends a whole lot of time having sex with the ghost of his girlfriend  I'm fine with books pre-written to be turned into movies, but if he's going to do that I expect the movies that get squeezed out to be better than this. Like, he's had some hits, but looking at his filmography most of them are made-for-tv or direct-to-video. I made the mistake of reading 77 Shadow Street because it sounded like it would make for a decent horror movie, and it turned out to be a rant on the dangers of liberal thinking. I wish they'd make it into a movie, because I'd love to see real actors being mouthpieces for Koontz' terrible views.
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Jul 2, 2015 16:52
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el oso posted:I just watched Oculus today and enjoyed it a lot. I love movies that mess with the perception of reality and the mixing of the past and present events was really dynamic. I liked Oculus more than some of the posters here seem to, but Absentia was, I think, a way better movie. It's one I keep coming back to, just because the premise of the monster is so strange. Oculus is 1408 with a mirror, but Absentia is Lovecraft levels of strangeness without being all tentacles and suchlike.
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Aug 18, 2015 22:14
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Irony.or.Death posted:As for Absentia: characters that are impossible for what I am going to stereotype as most horror fans to relate to.
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Snak posted:him killing his wife and kid is super heavy-handedly foreshadowed by the foam sword fight where he stabs them both as they fall on the ground Yeah, I don't care how heavily they foreshadow, I'd never see a swordfight between the main character and his wife who is secretly a cultist, with their son on her back, in a hunchback disguise coming. I'd way sooner assume they were playing around, that it was a fun detail to show that he has a nice home life and is not always controlled by anger issues.
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Aug 27, 2015 20:10
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Snak posted:Is The Shrine any good? It was on netflix for a long time, but I don't think I ever watched it. I liked it. I thought the twist was good, and I liked what the movie did.
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Kin posted:So i'm hosting a horror double bill night for my friends soon and i'm looking for some good ideas on genuinely scary films. Would people consider Kill List a psychological horror movie?
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Mar 7, 2016 21:43
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Kin posted:This is literally what happened at our last double bill a few weeks ago. Everyone pretty much hated it.
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I can't make you like Kill List, but I can say that I liked Lake Mungo again after I re-watched it.
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Mar 7, 2016 22:55
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PTizzle posted:Is The Signal (2014) any good? I've been meaning to watch it but it's proving a bit annoying to track down.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:For the record, I did not care for TimeCrimes.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:the one with the boat
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